It is with great regret and deep respect that the international geographical community has to mourn the death of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Walther Manshard, former Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU). He passed away peacefully on March 23rd, 2023 in the 100th year of his life. Walther Manshard, born November [...]
Dear Colleagues An international scientific conference "Geography: Past, Present, and Future Challenges", will be held on November 1-3, 2023, in Tbilisi (Georgia), and is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, founded in 1933 as Department of Geography at Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi, Georgia, 1-3 November, 2023 [...]
Dear Colleagues IGU awarded Royal Geographical Society Special Gold Medal The International Geographical Union (IGU) has today been awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) Special Gold Medal. This was presented to IGU President Michael Meadows at a glittering awards ceremony at the headquarters of the RGS in London by the President, Professor Nigel Clifford The [...]
The IGU Commission Excellence Awards Committee has unanimously proposed that the IGU Commission Excellence Award for 2022 should be conferred on the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography and that, at a recent meeting of the IGU Executive Committee, the recommendation was ratified. Read more about the activities of the Commission here The citation for [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues, Hope this email finds you well. It is our great pleasure to share with you all that the International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2023 (GEOSUS 2023), hosted by Beijing Normal University (China), will be held on Oct. 27-28, 2023 in Beijing, China and online. The theme of this workshop is "Geography [...]
FRCCS: FRENCH CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS Please diffuse in your networks: DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD : Submission deadline: April 24, 2023 The Doctoral Student Award is in place to recognize early career contributions. It is awarded to young researchers enrolled in a Ph.D. program. This competition consists in presenting your research in simple terms in a [...]
2024 International Geographical Union Thematic Conference Connecting Geographies from the Global South May 15th-17th, 2024 + Post conference excursions on May 18th-19th, 2024 FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador ANNOUNCEMENT The 2024 IGU Thematic Conference “Connecting Geographies from the Global South” will be held in the Latin American Institute of Social Sciences (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador, between May [...]
Michael E Meadows, President of the International Geographical Union 2020-2024, in this article, explains how sustainable development can be achieved through harnessing the benefits of basic sciences Social, economic, environmental and related health issues are receiving increased attention globally and are brought into particularly sharp focus by the global climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, [...]
Dear Colleagues ISC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development” We continue the “Distinguished Lecture Series on Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development” to promote the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development and to highlight the importance of basic sciences for the ISC community: 18 April, 14:00 UTC: “Geospatial Information-Enabled SDGs Monitoring” https://council.science/events/geospatial-information-enabled-sdgs-monitoring/ [...]
The IGU has a stand in the Exhibition Hall of the 2023 AAG annual conference currently taking place in Denver. Several members of the Executive Committee, along with members of the Local Organizing Committee of the Dubling IGC 2024 are present to promote the IGU and its activities. The stand has been visited by countless [...]
